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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of jackhammer.

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Examples

  • The Yankees, you'll recall jackhammered the concrete and dug up that jersey after they found it was buried there by a Red Sox fan on the construction crew.

    CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2008 2008

  • Ms. Ten Eyck jackhammered the stone shelf and transformed the problematic area into a gravel courtyard.

    A Garden That's Light on the Land Stephen Orr 2011

  • A few years later, the old man took it down and jackhammered out the concrete.

    Aforementioned Craig Lancaster 2011

  • Upstream, overlooking the site of the reservoir, spires of concrete-encased steel reinforcing bars marked where four cylindrical intake towers were to rise in pairs, 390 feet tall, from shelves jackhammered into the cliffsides.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The concrete had hardened into solid blocks that had to be jackhammered free or, in especially stubborn cases, drilled out.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • And the floods continued as September hurricane rains worked their way up the coast and pounded the Northeast, forcing me to undertake a months-long renovation that led to the house's foundation being jackhammered into bits.

    Excerpt: 'Falling Apart In One Piece' Stacy Morrison 2010

  • My heart jackhammered when he grabbed my shoulders.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • And in the first movie, him having a baby with Louis Lane makes sense until you think about hwo hard he probably jackhammered her.

    NEXT SUPERMAN TO BE COMPLETE RE-DO? 2008

  • The concrete had hardened into solid blocks that had to be jackhammered free or, in especially stubborn cases, drilled out.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Upstream, overlooking the site of the reservoir, spires of concrete-encased steel reinforcing bars marked where four cylindrical intake towers were to rise in pairs, 390 feet tall, from shelves jackhammered into the cliffsides.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

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